🗝️Detective Ryker Viltarin must uncover dark secrets before he loses not only his heart but also his life.🗝️
You're on your own, far from home
The wind is blowing in the top of the pines
A gloomy sky where the sun never shines
Deep...
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Eve stared at him and sucked in a sharp breath. Then she slapped his hand away from her face and pushed him even more furiously against his broad chest. He had been expecting it because it was barely enough to make him take half a step back.
"You lying asshole!" she hissed now, her shoulders shaking as all the repressed emotions threatened to overwhelm her. "I've never forgotten Liam! I was locked up in a bloody cupboard because YOU wanted to punish me!"
He should go to hell! She wasn't going to be played this time. She ... knew what kind of cards Dylan liked to play. He'd been winning these kinds of games far too long and far too easily ... and every time he found himself in a position he didn't like, all his good intentions collapsed like a house of cards. Five minutes ago, he had been apologizing and begging ... and now he was threatening her. Whether it was desperation or whether Dylan couldn't lose, she didn't care.
"In the hospital and at the doctor's, you might have been able to tell your pathetic story. About the clumsy mother who hurts her child and herself, and the exemplary Seal, the great soldier and father!" she spat out.
Eve had to fight the urge to vent her anger and hit him, as he had always loved to do. He deserved it. But she was better than that. Better than him! So she would win completely differently: by playing to HER advantage.
"But you're here in Canada, not Oregon! Here, the authorities don't give a shit that you're such a damn fantastic seal, and nobody here believes your filthy lies!"
He was wrong.
She had support.
She was not alone.
She wasn't intimidated.
Eve said it to herself like a mantra.
"Some people stopped believing your excuses and lies long ago, Dylan. And I'm no longer defending you; that's over! I covered for you all the time. Hurting ME was one thing - I've put up with that for far too long, as well as your pretense of being better and sorry. But you hurt Liam! You went too far! YOU can't control yourself, and it's time you woke up!" Eve crossed her arms before her chest so he couldn't see her trembling hands. "Be sensible for once because your goddamn thick head isn't going to help you this time. Sign the fucking divorce papers, take responsibility for your actions, and REALLY change something instead of just making empty promises!"
